Today's Cork tech club is presented by Jackie McBrearty. It was a busy
meeting and the following is a outline of the discussion.
The participants are as follows: Jackie McBrearty, Ken Walsh, Pat Walsh, Derry
Walsh, Noreen Meagher, Gavin Allman, Martha Parkinson and Marian Maloney.
We had Apologies from Chris Egon, Pat Walsh and cearbhall.omeadhra.
The Group extends their sympathy to Chris on his family bereavement.
The meeting started with Ken saying about the notification he received from
the Covid trackr app this Morning. This alert came in at 7am and slightly
freaked Ken out as he was sure he had come in contact with someone with the
virus. However, when he read it fully the app was notifying him he was fit and
healthy and had shown no symptoms all week. Jackie, Noreen and Pat all said
they do not receive this exposure notification. everyone who has the app said
they do the daily check in to say they are symptom free. The app was further
discussed in relation to accuracy with bluetooth and location.
Derry Walsh, was talking about streaming sports, he explained to a friend
about what streaming actually meant. It was explained as live feed, good wifi
is needed. cork county board is not charging but other boards are possibly
charging for streaming matches. it was suggested to go to the county board
website to find the match.its a live feed Ken said allot of matches are on
103FM.
Derry started a discussion on GPS apps and finding yourself when lost. People
suggested asking siri and blind square was also suggested for giving more
detailed descriptions of your location. Other GPS apps got discussed but siri
and blind square seemed more popular. Marion was asking about whatsapp, she
wanted to know about deleting a group without leaving it. It was suggested to
either archive or mute the group. This is achieved by swiping down with one
finger. The group messages does not need to be opened this is done with out
that.
There was a discussion about the audible app and books in general. so I've
grouped the books discussion into this one piece. The directions was given on
the process of signing in and out of audible accounts.
Then Jackie brought up on buying kindle books and you can buy the audible
companion for allot cheaper. This works out best if you either don't have a
credit or don't want to waste a credit on a shorter book.
Gavin bought a book using apple books and he was directed how to find this
book. our old buddy Siri was called upon again to open the books app. Pat
suggested to search for it in the app store encase it had been accidentally
deleted.
Martha, was having an issue with one of her romance audible books on Alexa, the
book appeared to get stuck and wouldn't go any further. Jackie said she didn't
know if it was a audible or Alexa issue, she had also had the same problem with
quite a few of her vampire werewolves books.
We also chatted about other platforms to listen or read books. Scribt'd was
one such platform Derry has subscribed to this and he is very impressed.
borrow box and book share also got a mention, Pat would use book share with the
voice dream reader.
Jackie said she was having an issue with facebook in that she could not open
group or other status updates using a one finger double tap. The work around
she found is to swipe down to comments do the one finger double tap and this
opens the post. Ken said he had also had this problem in the past and this
was the work around he also found.This then led onto a natter about dictation.
It was agreed that the standard of the dictation feature can be dodgy. It was
noticed that random words and spaces would be put in.
The meeting continued with talking about adding names and numbers to the
contact app. There is different ways to fill out the details ie, first name,
surname etc. Pat explained about going into the phone settings so if you have a
few contacts with the surname O'Brian then you could have all the O'Brians
together or have first name first so it would go on alphabetical order IE, John
O'Brian and Mary O'Brian would not be with the O's.
Ken told us he had been blocked from be my eyes. This came about because of a
few attempts to make contact within the app. after the meeting he was making
contact with the developers to find out what happened and to get himself
unblocked.
Ken and Martha both had issues with Gmail during the week. Martha is having
problems signing into windows mail so she will be contacting the microsoft
support on be my eyes to assist her download outlook. Ken and Martha had sign
in issues with google.
Then they all lived happily ever after and the meeting ended.
I hope no one will have Nightmares
Jackie
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